{"id":7186,"date":"2017-11-28T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:05:47","slug":"yoga-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/11\/28\/yoga-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7AYKMP6rOE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Back in August, I decided to start a morning practice of yoga, with the goal of doing at least a little yoga every day. My craft room has enough empty floor space to put out a yoga mat, and a door to keep the dogs from joining me. (Sometimes I let one in, but it&#8217;s very hard to do yoga around a dog.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I discovered Adriene, a Texas yoga instructor who has a million instructive yoga videos on Youtube, but I decided her 30 Days of Yoga would be a good start. She has several thirty-day\u00a0programs, recorded in different Januarys, that are sequences that build on one another.<\/p>\n<p>Her style(s) seemed quite similar to the instructor of the small yoga classes I attended\u00a0in person a couple of years ago. My initial rule was\u00a0to stick with the whole practice, even if I had to considerably modify things depending on how decrepit I was feeling on a particular day. I was quite pleased at the end of the month because I practiced every day but three. Two of those days involved our trip to Nebraska to see the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>In September, I changed the rules a bit: if I wasn&#8217;t getting into a particular practice, even with modifications, I could quit after fifteen minutes and still consider it a success. I enjoyed the 30 Days of Yoga program so much that I repeated it, and practiced every day in September.<\/p>\n<p>In October, I changed the &#8220;rules&#8221; again while doing her Yoga Revolution thirty-day program. On days that I didn&#8217;t feel like doing the practice from Yoga Revolution, I would switch in one of her other practices. I practiced every day but one in October.<\/p>\n<p>In November, I fell on ice early in the month and my upper back went into a spasm for over a week. I had to find some very easy practices that didn&#8217;t involve the neck and back much. I had planned to do the thirty day Yoga Camp program, but have only done a handful. I&#8217;ll probably pick those up again in February. So far I&#8217;ve practiced every day in November one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>After years of wanting some sort of daily yoga practice, I am very pleased how I am doing now. With a few exceptions, I practice first thing in the morning, before I feed the dogs. I have a much better chance of getting it done before the day starts.\u00a0 I usually finish up with five minutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shavasana\">chavasana<\/a> after the practice ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August, I decided to start a morning practice of yoga, with the goal of doing at least a little yoga every day. My craft room has enough empty floor space to put out a yoga mat, and a door to keep the dogs from joining me. (Sometimes I let one in, but it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2017\/11\/28\/yoga-every-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yoga Every Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-1RU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}